According to the gossip, the original version is five hours long, and the mainland version can be harmonious for three hours. The film bureau is really unlimited.
The audience in the screening hall is pitifully small, which is the same as "Nanjing! Nanjing! "Rabe Diary" really belongs to those cold films compared to the hot scenes.
To be honest, there is no name Rabe in Chinese high school history textbooks. For a long time, I did not know who Rabe was, nor did I know that there was an "international safe zone" in Nanjing at that time by a group of foreigners. , I even thought that Chiang Kai-shek, the supreme commander of the Chinese theater, really had no resistance, and turned Nanjing into a city without soldiers, allowing the Japanese army to ravage and destroy.
But, obviously, I was wrong. Rabe is so great, the International Security Zone is so eloquent, and the street fighting in Nanjing is also worth writing about.
However, it is clear that the textbooks do not write these.
The introduction to the Nanjing Massacre in the Huangpi People's Education Edition "Modern and Modern History of China (Part 2)" is as follows:
"In December 1937, the Japanese army captured Nanjing. The Nationalist government moved to Chongqing, and Chongqing became the wartime companion capital. The Japanese army carried out the operation in Nanjing. In a horrific massacre, more than 300,000 people were killed in Nanjing." (P.29)
Then there is a small print, quoting a Japanese reporter's text, introducing the tragic state of the corpse.
The standard edition of Huangpi People's Teaching Course "History (Compulsory 1)" introduces:
"In December 1937, after the Japanese army captured Nanjing, they carried out a horrific massacre on the peaceful residents of Nanjing. Within six weeks, the unarmed Nanjing civilians were massacred. And more than 300,000 soldiers who have laid down their weapons. Some of them were shot, some were stabbed, some were buried, and some were burned alive... The methods of massacre are extremely cruel." (P.75)
Yuelu Course Standard Edition "History (Compulsory 1): Political Civilization Process" said:
"In December 1937, after the Japanese army occupied Nanjing, they carried out a 'big competition' of inhuman burning, killing and looting. During the six-week slaughter, more than 300,000 Chinese were killed. The monstrous crimes of the Japanese army were innumerable and shocked the world. It has been called 'the unprecedented cruel record in modern history' and 'the darkest page in the history of modern civilization' by Chinese and foreign media circles." (P.88)
These are the three most commonly used high school history textbooks nationwide about the "Nanjing Massacre" ” narrative content.
The textbook does not tell you that Nanjing fell on December 13, 1937, nor does it tell you that the escaped general of the Nanjing garrison was named Tang Shengzhi, and there is nothing about John Rabe and the Nanjing Safety Zone. Such a major historical event, which is often used as evidence and a humiliating historical fact, composes the spring breeze of reform and opening up and the moving melody of the all-round development of morality, intelligence, body and beauty. After removing a large number of cases, it is directly concluded with one sentence. It is really harmonious. .
How much history do we know when we yell at everything about that neighboring country.
Reflection is more important than tolerance and reprimand.
In this regard, the film needs to be thanked, at least it tells us an overlooked historical fact and a different kind of historical fact.
Although this movie is sensational, but based on that, I still recommend it.
Gone.
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